Love DNA of famous classic novels (infographic)
The infographic charts how much love, literally, there is in famous classic novels.
You’ll be surprised to discover what Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility have in common, how “love” evolved in books since 1800, and much more.
Classic books from public domain can be read, re-used, and researched, bringing surprising facts like the ones in the infographic above.
Once the book becomes available for online reading, it can be analysed using basic search feature every web browser has. This is what we did with html files of selected classic books available at Project Gutenberg.
The content of public domain titles can feed tools like BookLamp and Google Books Ngram Viewer. It allows for a wider – or deeper – view on the researched topic.
Wonderful illustrations from classic books can be re-used legally. The British Library Flickr profile is the biggest single repository of such images.
All that makes it possible to get creative in how we present the content of these books. In the end it leads to promoting the benefit we all love – the joy of reading.
Get classic novels for free
If you’re into ebooks, you should really check out Project Gutenberg.
You’ll find here most popular classic books, not only romance novels listed below. Ebooks are available in several file formats, including mobi (for Kindle), epub (for most other devices and apps), pdf, and html.
Click or tap on the infographic to enlarge. Feel free to share Love DNA of classic novels on your site. Copy the embed code from below:
Love DNA of classic novels – infographic
Looking for more infographics about books, ebooks, libraries, and digital publishing? Here are the recent ones:
This popular list updated for 2020 includes advanced charging solutions, adapters and flash drives, accessories compatible with iPadOS, home appliances, organizers, and more!
iPad accessories
About Piotr Kowalczyk
Ad-man who decided to devote his life to books. Founder of Ebook Friendly, ebook enthusiast, and self-published short story author. Prefers reading on his iPhone, but when it comes to history books – Piotr always picks print.
Info Posts Twitter Blog Mail
• • •
Secure social sharing
We've removed all social buttons, but if you wish to share this post on Twitter or Facebook, use the box below which will securely open the sharing panel in a new browser tab.
Before you go
What iPad Pro 11 case are you looking for? We've got the most exciting new designs from third-party producers. Smart Cover alternatives, keyboard cases, slim tri-fold stands, heavy-duty folios, fashionable cases for women, and more!
iPad Pro 11 covers
Featured
Improved screen cleaner kit from Whoosh!
The kit includes an odorless, ammonia-free screen cleaner (3.4 oz bottle) that’s proven to remove 99.99% of dust, dirt, and gunk. The pack includes also two premium cleaning clothes. Perfect for iPad, Kindle, and other mobile devices.
Average rating: 4.5/5
Amazon $14.99
• • •
Instead of comments
A Woman of No Importance:
The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
by Sonia Purnell
Prologue
France was falling. Burned-out cars, once strapped high with treasured possessions, were nosed crazily into ditches. Their beloved cargoes of dolls, clocks, and mirrors lay smashed around them and along mile upon mile of unfriendly road. Their owners, young and old, sprawled across the hot dust, were groaning or already silent. Yet the hordes just kept streaming past them, a never-ending line of hunger and exhaustion too fearful to stop for days on end.
Ten million women, children, and old men were on the move, all fleeing Hitler’s tanks pouring across the border from the east and the north. Entire cities had uprooted themselves in a futile bid to escape the Nazi blitzkrieg that threatened to engulf them. The fevered talk was of German soldiers stripped to the waist in jubilation at the ease of their conquest. The air was thick with smoke and the stench of the dead. The babies had no milk, and the aged fell where they stood. The horses drawing overladen old farm carts sagged and snarled in their sweat-drenched agony. The French heat wave of May 1940 was witness to this, the largest refugee exodus of all time.
Day after day a solitary moving vehicle weaved its way through the crowd with a striking young woman at the wheel. Private Virginia Hall often ran low on fuel and medicines but still pressed on in her French army ambulance toward the advancing enemy. She persevered even when the German Stukas came screaming down to drop 110-pound bombs onto the convoys all around her, torching the cars and cratering the roads. Even when fighter planes swept over the treetops to machine-gun the ditches where women and children were trying to take cover from the carnage. Even though French soldiers were deserting their units, abandoning their weapons, and running away, some in their tanks. Even when her left hip was shot with pain from continually pressing down on the clutch with her prosthetic foot.
325 words read…
+ Kindle + Print
